From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 15 10:22:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41D6216A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:22:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tisys.org (thunderbridge.de [69.28.244.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1807D43D39 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:22:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nils@tisys.org) Received: from wunder.tisys.org (dialin-pool2-192.wobline.de [62.176.227.192]) by tisys.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i6FAMHZ19745; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 03:22:17 -0700 Received: from wunder.tisys.org (wunder.tisys.org [192.168.0.1]) by wunder.tisys.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i6FALx3N000382; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:22:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from nils@tisys.org) From: Nils Holland Organization: Ti Systems To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:21:52 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407151221.52918.nils@tisys.org> cc: Haim Ashkenazi Subject: Re: what version to use for home desktop? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:22:29 -0000 On Thursday 15 July 2004 11:45, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > Hi > > After using FreeBSD for a month on a server, I thought of moving my > desktop from debian unstable to freebsd (I've been using linux as my > desktop for 7 years now, and it's time for a change... :) ). I'm wondering > about what version to use. on debian it's very common to use unstable for > the desktop (if you know that sometimes a package breaks) and it's very > rare that the whole system breaks (I never seen that in the 2 years I'm > using it). what's the status on freebsd? can I use CURRENT for my desktop > without being afraid that it won't boot after an upgrade? Well, there's always a chance that when you cvsup the latest sources and make world that things won't work because something wasn't not quite right in the sources right at the time when you did your cvsup. Chances of that happening are, of course, quite a bit higher for -CURRENT than for -STABLE. Generally, depending on what hardware you have in your machine and such, -CURRENT (or a release from the 5.x branch) should be well suitable for day to day use. There might be still some issues with it, but it's always worked fine for me on whatever machine I put it (though I must admit that my day-to-day desktop machine actually still runs 4-STABLE). > the reason I > want CURRENT is mostly hardware support (e.g. I have a SB!Live and I read > that STABLE doesn't support it). Really? I don't have one of those, but the hardware notes for 4.10 as can be found on the website deem to suggest that SB!Live's are supported under 4.x. Greetings, Nils -- eMail: nils@tisys.org Mobile / SMS: ++49-176-26179892 Website: http://www.tisys.org